Updated Assessment of Possibilities and Limits for Solar Cells

Solar cell efficiency tables (version 42)

(2015) Martin A. Green et al.   PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS

25th Anniversary Article: Colloidal Quantum Dot Materials and Devices: A Quarter-Century of Advances

(2013) Jin Young Kim et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

The state and future prospects of kesterite photovoltaics

(2013) Alex Polizzotti et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Semiconducting Tin and Lead Iodide Perovskites with Organic Cations: Phase Transitions, High Mobilities, and Near-Infrared Photoluminescent Properties

(2013) Constantinos C. Stoumpos et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Separating Charges at Organic Interfaces: Effects of Disorder, Hot States, and Electric Field

(2013) Pabitra K. Nayak et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

High Open-Circuit Voltage Solar Cells Based on Organic–Inorganic Lead Bromide Perovskite

(2013) Eran Edri et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Sequential deposition as a route to high-performance perovskite-sensitized solar cells

(2013) Julian Burschka et al.   NATURE

Long-Range Balanced Electron- and Hole-Transport Lengths in Organic-Inorganic CH3NH3PbI3

(2013) G. Xing et al.   SCIENCE

Electron-Hole Diffusion Lengths Exceeding 1 Micrometer in an Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Absorber

(2013) S. D. Stranks et al.   SCIENCE

Recombination Through Different Types of Localized States in Organic Solar Cells

(2012) Robert A. Street et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photovoltaic efficiency limits and material disorder

(2012) Pabitra K. Nayak et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

On the Energetic Dependence of Charge Separation in Low-Band-Gap Polymer/Fullerene Blends

(2012) Stoichko D. Dimitrov et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Panchromatic Photon-Harvesting by Hole-Conducting Materials in Inorganic–Organic Heterojunction Sensitized-Solar Cell through the Formation of Nanostructured Electron Channels

(2012) Jeong Ah Chang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Hybrid passivated colloidal quantum dot solids

(2012) Alexander H. Ip et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

The Role of Driving Energy and Delocalized States for Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductors

(2012) A. A. Bakulin et al.   SCIENCE

Co-evaporated Cu2ZnSnSe4 films and devices

(2012) Ingrid Repins et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Beyond 11% Efficiency: Characteristics of State-of-the-Art Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4Solar Cells

(2012) Teodor K. Todorov et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Ga Composition Dictates Macroscopic Photovoltaic and Nanoscopic Electrical Characteristics of Cu(In $_{1-X}$Ga$_X$)Se $_2$ Thin Films via Grain-Boundary-Type Inversion

(2012) Wenjie Li et al.   IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Strong Internal and External Luminescence as Solar Cells Approach the Shockley–Queisser Limit

(2012) Owen D. Miller et al.   IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Assessing Possibilities and Limits for Solar Cells

(2011) Pabitra K. Nayak et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Cyclopentadithiophene Bridged Donor-Acceptor Dyes Achieve High Power Conversion Efficiencies in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on the tris-Cobalt Bipyridine Redox Couple

(2011) Hoi Nok Tsao  et al.   ChemSusChem

Band Alignment and Internal Field Mapping in Solar Cells

(2011) Yafit Itzhaik et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Tris(2-(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)pyridine)cobalt(III) as p-Type Dopant for Organic Semiconductors and Its Application in Highly Efficient Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

(2011) Julian Burschka et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Porphyrin-Sensitized Solar Cells with Cobalt (II/III)-Based Redox Electrolyte Exceed 12 Percent Efficiency

(2011) A. Yella et al.   SCIENCE

Loss mechanisms in hydrazine-processed Cu2ZnSn(Se,S)4 solar cells

(2010) Oki Gunawan et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Single-crystal II-VI on Si single-junction and tandem solar cells

(2010) M. Carmody et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Interface state recombination in organic solar cells

(2010) R. A. Street et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Fundamental losses in solar cells

(2010) Louise C. Hirst et al.   PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS

Bulk heterojunction solar cells with internal quantum efficiency approaching 100%

(2009) Sung Heum Park et al.   Nature Photonics

What governs the reaction center excitation wavelength of photosystems I and II?

(2009) Ron Milo   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Reciprocity between electroluminescence and quantum efficiency used for the characterization of silicon solar cells

(2009) Thomas Kirchartz et al.   PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS

Multiple exciton generation in semiconductor quantum dots

(2008) Arthur J. Nozik   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

Can up- and down-conversion and multi-exciton generation improve photovoltaics?

(2008) H SHPAISMAN et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS